🆚 IRC vs. WeChat
- 📈 WeChat is much more popular than IRC.
- 🌎 WeChat is more popular in China, Hong Kong, and the United States.
- 🌍 IRC is more popular in Hungary, Finland, and the Czech Republic.
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About
IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a text-based chat system for instant messaging supported by many clients such as mIRC, XChat, ChatZilla and others.
WeChat (or Weixin in Chinese) is a Chinese instant messaging, social media, and mobile payment app that has evolved into a super-app combining communication, commerce, and everyday services.
It supports text, voice, and video messaging, group chats, public accounts, and the Moments social feed, includes an integrated digital wallet and payments through WeChat Pay, and hosts mini-programs and third-party services within its ecosystem.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🔥 13rd most popular in Germany in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🔥 16th most popular in the United States in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Hong Kong in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in China in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in China in the Social Media category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Hong Kong in the Social Media category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Cambodia in the Instant Messaging category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.